We didn't think that this would be a big deal, but maybe it is. We recently purchased 2 Seagate ST173404LCV 70G SCSI-160 hard drives with the 80 pin connectors, as well as a pair of 80-68 pin adapters so we could hook them up to a 68-pin system.
In our tests, the drives are detected at 40mb/s by the Adaptec controller card. This is not a FreeBSD issue, because it's the SCSI bios that detects the drives at 40. I've tried tweaking every setting I could in Adaptec bios, and yet the drive is detected at 40. I grabbed another SCSI-160 drive with a 68 pin connector (not using the converter) and it's detected at 160. This means it's either the 80-68 converter or it's the drive itself. So ... before I send these drives back to Seagate and complain, does anyone have experience with these 80-68 pin converters to tell me whether it could be causing the problem or not? We got them for less than $10 - should we buy the more expensive converters? We've tried 2 converters/ 2 drives in all possible combinations and it always detects as 40. Any feedback is very much appreciated! -Bill Moran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
